interventions: Let Down Your Hair
The Witch
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair!"
“In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. The witch was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery (until rescued)”.
*Hair symbolizes physical strength and virility; the virtues and properties of a person are said to be concentrated in his hair and nails. It is a symbol of instinct, of female seduction and physical attraction. ... Hair flowing depicts freedom and looseness; the unwilling removal of hair may be a castration symbol.
Rapunzel is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and was first published in 1812.
Two unsanctioned interventions, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Kingston, NY, 2021,
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink, archival watercolor paper (26 X 18 inches)
